Passing through Elgg
October 24, 2007 by Terry Anderson
On the train yesterday, through the beautiful fall colored Swiss countryside, I was delightfully surprised to speed through the small town of Elgg – It is located between Zurich and St Gallen. It seems the kind of town you’d feel comfortable owning a pet Jersey cow but I image you could get by with a St Bernard dog or two as well. Unfortunately, I wasn’t prepared with my camera, so the opportunity to capture a shot and share it with the ELGG community evaded me! But ELGG exists!
As an aside, we see online trumping the real world as I looked for a photo of Elgg Switzerland in Flickr and found 1476 tagged photos, but after looking at the first 20 screens full of thumbnails, I saw many pictures of elgg screenshots, elgg gatherings and Ben and Dave, but alas no REAL Elgg photos – so you just have to take my word for it that it exists!! Maybe the real world Elggians better get a photo up before they are eclipsed by the online world!
Terry
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I could be wrong (my knowledge of German is rudimentary), but I think these have pictures of the original Elgg…
http://www.winteam.ch/versicherungsagenturen/elsau-elgg.html
http://www.swisscastles.ch/Zurich/schloss/elgg.html
http://www.standort-winterthur.ch/en/region-winterthur/elgg.html (I like the description: “Elgg is synonymous with quiet and relaxation, but also with the active village life in the countless associations.”)
It even has a flag – http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/ch-zh156.html
(for the keen, there are hockey and football teams, galleries and a fascinating story about a pig-like animal from pre-historic times – but that’s another story)
Google image search is fascinating – I am intrigued by other Elggs, such as Bob von Elgg (http://www.bfsp.net/about.html) and the Elgg family from Bad Säckingen (http://blog.flaeche-schub.de/2007/03/der-elgg-geistert-durchs-buro.html). More sinisterly, in the very little known game world of the Drow of the Underdark (I kid ye not) Elgg becomes a verb meaning to kill, slay or destroy – see http://drowoftheunderdar.20m.com/photo5.html
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Hi Terry & Jon,
Searched my name on Google and found your site. Nice that you visited Elgg. I’ve been there only once,in 1982. My entire last name is Werdmuller von Elgg. The Werdmuller von Elgg’s own the castle/schloss in Elgg.
Jon… Thanks for the Elgg links an happy trails in future travel.
Bob
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Hello to all! My name is Tricia M. Werdmuller von Elgg. My father is Eric C. C. Werdmuller von Elgg. It was wonderful seeing pictures of Elgg as I have not been there as of yet. It is beautiful and I look forward to seeing it personally. Thank you for the insight.
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Johan Werdmuller-von-Elgg Reply:
March 8th, 2009 at 7:44 pm
Hi Tricia,
That’s my Uncle you are writing about, my name is Joh Werdmuller-von-Elgg and I primncipally come from Australia (Sydney) but currently live in Thailand.
If you get a chance, drop me a line or two from time to time.
Cheers
Joh W…
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My mother is a werdmuller von ellg, I have been to elgg two times in my life, I would love to go back one day with my son and show him.
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FRANCINA ERNST Reply:
February 19th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
HI YVONNE,
MAY I ASK WHO’S DAUGHTER ARE YOU? WHAT IS YOUR MAM’S NAME?
I’M FRANCINA ERNST-POETOEHENA BORN IN INDONESIA(JAKARTA).
MY GRANDMOTHER IS IDA MATHILDA WILHELMINA CHOMPFF-WERDMULLER VON ELGG, SHE WAS THE YOUNGEST SISTER OF OTTO.
I’VE VISIT SCHLOSS ELGG TO PUT SOME FLOWERS AT OOM OTTO’S CRIPT FOR TANTE ESTER. SHE PASSED AWAY TOO.
WELL I HOPE TO HEAR FROM YOU SOMEDAY.
I’M HERE IN WESTMINSTER CALIFORNIA.
LOVE,
FRANCINA.
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Hi,
My name is Werdmuller von Elgg, from The Hague, Netherlands.
My mom told me that everyone with the same name is related.
Thank you for the pictures, I hope I can visit Elgg soon.
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